JCross Nonogram vs Nonogram Square
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
JCross Nonogram
Solve logic puzzles where numbers guide you to fill in cells and reveal a hidden picture. Offers thousands of puzzles in various sizes with helpful tools like zoom and undo.
- Thousands of free puzzles
- Multiple grid sizes
- Zoom mode for large puzzles
- Undo option
- Light and dark themes
- Portrait and landscape support
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More than 100,000 nonograms, from quick 10×10 puzzles to giant 100×100 ones. Play at your own pace, with no timers and no limits: every puzzle is a hidden picture you reveal cell by cell. Nonograms (also known as Picross, Griddlers, Hanjie, Japanese crosswords or Paint by Numbers) are logic puzzles where a picture is hidden instead of words. Every puzzle in JCross has exactly one solution, and you can reach it with pure logic, no guessing. HOW TO PLAY The numbers on the left and at the top give the lengths of the blocks of filled cells in each row and column. Blocks are separated by at least one empty cell and appear in the same order as the numbers. Fill the cells you are sure about, mark the ones that must stay empty with a cross, and the picture will appear step by step. FEATURES • More than 100,000 black-and-white nonograms grouped by size: from a two-minute warm-up to large canvases for several evenings. • Hints: stuck? The game shows your mistakes or the next cells that follow by logic. • Pinch to zoom and pan, so even 100×100 puzzles are comfortable to solve. • Undo (up to 100 moves). • Automatic crosses and clue marks: less routine, more logic. • More than 20 color themes, light and dark. • Portrait and landscape, iPhone and iPad. • Share a solved puzzle as a picture, a link or a QR code. • Game Center leaderboards and achievements. • Your progress is saved to the cloud and synced across your devices. Detailed instructions and solving techniques: https://popapp.org/Apps/Details/3#tutorial Sign in to Game Center in your device settings for leaderboards and achievements. To save your progress to the cloud and sync it across devices, sign in to Game Center and turn on iCloud Drive.
Nonogram Square
This app offers a variety of picture logic puzzles where you color cells based on number clues to reveal hidden images. It features multiple grid sizes, from 5x5 to 25x25, providing a challenging and engaging experience for puzzle enthusiasts.
- Picture logic puzzles
- Color cells based on number clues
- Reveal hidden images
- Multiple grid sizes (5x5 to 25x25)
- Challenging gameplay
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Nonograms, also known as Paint by Numbers, Picross, Griddlers, Pic-a-Pix, kenken, kakuro, pictogram, numbrix, shikaku, nurikabe and various other names, are picture logic puzzles in which cells in a grid must be colored or left blank according to numbers at the side of the grid to reveal a hidden picture. In this puzzle type, the numbers are a form of discrete tomography that measures how many unbroken lines of filled-in squares there are in any given row or column. For example, a clue of "4 8 3" would mean there are sets of four, eight, and three filled squares, in that order, with at least one blank square between successive sets. kind of nonogramm : 5x5, 10x10, 15x15, 20x20, 25x25
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nonogram Square at none against JCross Nonogram's 6. Nonogram Square also leads on iOS requirement (14.5 vs 16.0). JCross Nonogram's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (78 vs 25). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. JCross Nonogram sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Nonogram Square asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for JCross Nonogram against 4.7 for Nonogram Square. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 78 and 25 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of JCross Nonogram's written reviews are positive against 87% of Nonogram Square's.
JCross Nonogram ships an update weekly, Nonogram Square every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | JCross Nonogram | Nonogram Square |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (78 ratings) — better | 4.7 (25 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.6% of reviews | 86.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 78 — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Amir Kadyrov | GIBONG KIM |
Customer experience
JCross Nonogram
Nonogram Square
Bugs and requests
JCross Nonogram
Reported bugs
8 issues- App freezes and kicks users off mid-puzzle
- Crashes when selecting certain grid sizes
- Puzzle display obscured by notch on newer iPhones
- Control buttons unresponsive at screen edges
- Music continues playing after ads stop
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- Data loss when reinstalling app
- Unsolvable puzzles due to incorrect numbering
- Display issues in landscape mode on iPhone XR
Requested features
5 requests- Ruler or row/column tracker for larger boards
- Redo button for undoing undo actions
- Hint system showing completed picture
- Ad blocker in-app purchase functionality
- Fix for music playback during gameplay
Nonogram Square
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
JCross Nonogram
- Turn off ads$0.99
- XSmall puzzle solution$0.99
- Small puzzle solution$0.99
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- Medium puzzle solution$0.99
- Large puzzle solution$0.99
- XLarge puzzle solution$0.99
Nonogram Square
No in-app purchases
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